Organization: Stable, formal structure
Takes resources from environment and processes them to produce outputs
Behavioral definition of Organization: Collection of rights, privileges, obligations, responsibilities
Delicately balanced
Conflict resolution
Structural Characteristics of Organizations: Clear division of labor
Hierarchy
Explicit rules and procedures
Impartial judgments
Structural Characteristics of Organizations (cont.): Technical qualifications
Maximum organizational efficiency
Standard Operating Procedures: Precise rules, procedures, and practices
Enable organizations to cope with all expected situations
Organizational Politics: Divergent viewpoints leads to political struggle, competition, and conflict
Hamper organizational change
Organizational Culture: a set of
fundamental assumptions about: What products the organization should produce
How and where it should produce them
For whom they should be produced
AL organizations have different: Structures/Organizational types
Goals
Constituencies
Leadership Styles, Tasks
Surrounding Environment..
Stable, formal structure
Takes resources from environment and processes them to produce outputs
Behavioral definition of Organization:
Collection of rights, privileges, obligations, responsibilities
Delicately balanced
Conflict resolution
Structural Characteristics of Organizations:
Clear division of labor
Hierarchy
Explicit rules and procedures
Impartial judgments
Structural Characteristics of Organizations (cont.):
Technical qualifications
Maximum organizational efficiency
Standard Operating Procedures:
Precise rules, procedures, and practices
Enable organizations to cope with all expected situations
Organizational Politics:
Divergent viewpoints leads to political struggle, competition, and conflict
Hamper organizational change
Organizational Culture: a set of
fundamental assumptions about:
What products the organization should produce
How and where it should produce them
For whom they should be produced
AL organizations have different:
Structures/Organizational types
Goals
Constituencies
Leadership Styles, Tasks
Surrounding Environment..